Madness, Power and the Media : Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress /

Questioning the psychiatric construction of mental distress as 'illness', and challenging existing studies of media stigmatization, Stephen Harper argues that today's media images of mental distress are often sympathetic, yet tend to reproduce the sexist, classist, racist and individu...

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Main Author:	Harper, Stephen (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Subjects:	Cultural and Media Studies. Cultural Studies. Film and Television Studies. Media Research. Media Studies. Regional and Cultural Studies. Sociology, general. Communication. Culture > Study and teaching. Mass media. Motion pictures and television. Popular culture > Study and teaching. Sociology. Electronic books.
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